ABANTU promotes use of hygienic sanitary protection

A gender based non-governmental organisation (NGO), Abantu for Development, is embarking on a campaign to promote hygienic sanitary protection by women.
The project targets girls in second cycle institutions, women in prison and refugee women.
Accordingly, the NGO has launched the project in collaboration with Alliance for African Women Initiative (AFAWI), the Ghana Prisons Service and Self-Help Initiative for Sustainable Development (SHIFSD) Inc. with support from Procta & Gambo (P&G) Limited, a multi-national consumer goods company.
The Programme Officer of Abantu for Development, Mrs Rhoda Asaa Panford, told the Daily Graphic that P&G manufacturers of Always Ultra sanitary pads, was supporting the NGO with the provision of its product in support of the schools sanitary protection campaign.
Research conducted by P&G in West Africa revealed that schoolchildren often missed school due to the use of poor sanitary towels during their menstrual period hence the initiative by P&G to promote the use of its product.
Mrs Panford said the NGO was also in talks with authorities of the Ghana Prisons Service to extend its campaign to female prison inmates at the Nsawam Medium Security Prisons.
She added that her outfit was intensifying its schools outreach programme in the regions and also sensitising the young students to the messages contained in the women’s manifesto.
The AFAWI is also providing incinerators and toilet facilities in the beneficiary schools for easy disposal of used sanitary towels.
The Supervisor for Always Ultra Teens Education Programme, Mrs Lydia Fadugbe, in an interview advised girls against using unhygienic sanitary protection systems such as toilet roll, gauze and rag, saying that such systems led to infections.